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New rules may not change dirty and deadly ship recycling business
AFP, Published on 18/06/2025
» CHITTAGONG — Mizan Hossain fell 10 metres (33-foot) from the top of a ship he was cutting up on Chittagong beach in Bangladesh -- where the majority of the world's maritime giants meet their end -- when the vibrations shook him from the upper deck.
Party-pooping haze
Oped, Postbag, Published on 11/01/2025
» Re: "PM2.5 tipped to worsen until Monday", (BP, Jan 10).
Keep toxic waste away
Oped, Editorial, Published on 23/08/2024
» Thailand just won a small battle against illegal toxic waste smuggling. Finally, two cargo vessels loaded with toxic waste were forced to return to their original destinations -- suspected to be Albania and another country in Europe -- after local officials blocked the ships from docking.
Two toxic waste ships banned from Thailand
Published on 14/08/2024
» Two Maersk ships reportedly carrying hazardous furnace waste from Albania to Thailand have been banned from Thai ports and will be sent back to Europe.
Amazon takes aim at packaging waste
Published on 20/06/2024
» Amazon.com, seeking to become more environmentally friendly, is replacing plastic air pillows in its North American shipments with recycled paper.
BEST Thailand Redefines Strategies to Stay at the Forefront of the Delivery Business
Published on 24/01/2024
» Thailand's logistics industry is gaining importance as e-commerce expands both nationwide and worldwide. Logistics.asia predicts that it will be worth $100 billion by 2026, with a 6% annual growth rate. However, despite this growth, most logistics companies in Thailand are seeing declining earnings due to misguided strategies that focus on cutting prices to remain competitive.
Grounds for hope
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 01/09/2023
» Over the last seven years, Nespresso has partnered with other Swiss brands to create new products from used aluminium capsules.
Coca-Cola, under its ‘World Without Waste vision’, continues the ‘Coke’ Recycle Me with Trash Lucky’
Published on 25/10/2022
» Further encouraging Thai consumers to separate out valuable recyclable packaging from non-recyclable waste and get a chance to win 2 million Baht worth of prizes!
EV market powers up
Business, Published on 22/02/2022
» Six million electric vehicles (battery electric and plug-in hybrid) will be shipped in 2022, up from 4 million in 2021, according to a new forecast by Gartner Inc.
Recycling puts waste-pickers at risk
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 13/02/2022
» A crowd of people holding curved metal spikes jumped on trash spilling out of a dump truck in Senegal's biggest landfill, hacking at the garbage to find valuable plastic.